HVREMS CLICIC Update Fall 2002

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HVREMS CLI/CIC Update Fall 2002

• Improving Your Skills Lab

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Objectives

• Describe the learning domains
• Understand learning domains as it relates to EMS
  education
• Explain NYS DOH curriculum content and objectives
• List the characteristics of a successful lab
  session
• Describe how to apply curriculum objectives
• Analyze psychomotor areas that need strengthening

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Learning Domains

• Cognitive Objectives
• knowledge or mind based
• three instructional levels including fact,
  understanding, and application
• define, identify, and list
• describe, compare and contrast
• explain, apply, and analyze
• typically a lecture/presentation

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Learning Domains

• Affective Objectives
• behavioral aspects - may be labeled as beliefs
• three levels in the domain are awareness,
  distinction, and integration
• display, exhibit, and accept

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Learning Domains

• Psychomotor Objectives
• skill based
• three instructional levels include imitation,
  practice, and habit
• imitation - return of the demonstration
• practice - proficiency building experience
• habit second nature
• demonstrate, show proficiency

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How can we apply this to our labs?
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The DOH Curriculum Objectives

• Objectives Legend
• Cognitive Objectives
• Affective Objectives
• Psychomotor Objectives
• Preparation
• Materials
• Personnel
• Presentation

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Challenge your students in the learning process

• Let them shine!

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How can EMS educators make a difference?

• Organization and structure
• Assign lab groups
• Create a schedule
• Appropriate lab sessions
• Minimize lecturing in stations
• Build on labs
• Use all of allotted time

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Make every minute count!

• Your students will thank you for it later !

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Teach to a level of understanding..

• Not simply to a level of memorization!

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Areas in need of strengthening

• MAST Trousers
• Application
• Protocols
• Lifting and Moving
• utilize furniture beds, sofas
• move from sofa, to stair chair, to stretcher
• utilize stairs, outdoors, narrow hallways
• Spinal injuries proper immobilization
• introduce students to varying backboards and
  straps
• pediatric immobilization
• car seats, booster seats
• Indications for seated spinal immobilization

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Areas in need of strengthening

• Assessments
• use moulage
• importance of acting/role playing
• pair up in 3s
• assessor, evaluator, patient
• Pediatrics
• Helmet Removal
• Procedures
• Protocols

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Areas in need of strengthening

• Others.